December 18, 2017

What's on TV? Tuesday, December 21, 1965

A fair amount of Christmas programming today. KTCA has Christmas music and CBS has The Nutcracker and Red Skelton's annual Christmas show (with guest star Greer Garson). There's also a big movie premiere and other goodies, so let's get to it.

2 KTCA (EDUC.)

Morning

10:10

CLASSROOM – Education

Ch. 2 leaves the air
from 10:25 A.M. to 12:30 P.M.

Afternoon

12:30

CLASSROOM – Education

Ch. 2 leaves the air
until 5 P.M.

5:00

KINDERGARTEN – Education

5:30

FRENCH – Anne Slack

Evening

6:30

OSSEO HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR

7:00

HOLIDAY FESTIVAL – Music

SPECIAL

8:30

PRIVATE COLLEGE LECTURES

9:00

SKIING – Cy Smythe

10:00

ST. OLAF CHOIR

10:30

ST. JOHN’S MONKS CHOIR

Lovely music from KTCA - in addition to the Osseo High School choir, the Holiday Festival features the choirs from Alexander Ramsey and Mound High Schools, and of course the St. Olaf College Choir is world-famous. The night ends with the monks from the monastery of St. John's in Collegevile, Minnesota.

The World Town Meeting, or Town Meeting of the World if you prefer, was a debate over United States policy in Vietnam, broadcast via satellite, between teams from Harvard and Oxford. Speaking for the policy is the Harvard team, a strange combination of political bedfellows including Henry Kissinger, future Nixon Secretary of State, student and future law professor Lawrence Tribe (who was frequently mentioned as a possible Democratic appointee to the Supreme Court), and Robert Shrum, who goes on to be a Democratic consultant and speechwriter. Head of the Oxford team is Socialist MP Michael Foot, whom Chris Berman surely would have referred to as "Michael 'My Left' Foot."

No seasonal programming on NBC tonight, since it's movie night. The Savage Innocents, directed by Nicholas Ray - that's one of my favorite Christmas movies. Well, it features an Eskimo hunter who accidentally kills a missionary, so at least there's snow.

9 KMSP (ABC)

Morning

7:30

MY LITTLE MARGIE - Comedy

8:00

RILEY ‘ROUND THE TOWN

8:30

GRANDPA KEN – Children

9:00

ROMPER ROOM – Miss Betty

10:00

SUPERMARKET SWEEPSTAKES – Game

10:30

DATING GAME

11:00

ELEVENTH HOUR – Drama

Afternoon

12:00

BEN CASEY – Drama

1:00

NURSES – Serial

1:30

A TIME FOR US – Serial

1:55

NEWS – Marlene Sanders

2:00

GENERAL HOSPITAL – Serial

2:30

YOUNG MARRIEDS – Serial

3:00

NEVER TOO YOUNG – Serial

3:30

WHERE THE ACTION IS – Variety

Guests: Little Richard, Keith Allison

4:00

SOUPY SALES – Comedy

4:30

DENNIS THE MENACE – Comedy

5:00

NEWS – Peter Jennings

5:15

NEWS – Don Riley

5:30

LEAVE IT TO BEAVER – Comedy

Evening

6:00

DOBIE GILLIS

6:30

COMBAT! – Drama

7:30

McHALE’S NAVY – Comedy

8:00

F TROOP – Comedy

8:30

PEYTON PLACE – Serial

9:00

FUGITIVE – Drama

10:00

NEWS – Bill Fahan

10:15

WEATHER – Jerry Smith

10:20

SPORTS – Tony Parker

10:30

MOVIE – Drama

“My Forbidden Past”
(1950)

I can't think that you'll see too many more listings like this: a network affiliate broadcasting from morning until midnight with not one color program shown.

11 WTCN (IND.)

Morning

9:15

NEWS

9:30

MOVIE – Musical

“Melody in Spring”
(1934)

10:55

NEWS – Gil Amundson

11:00

DONNA REED

11:30

FATHER KNOWS BEST – Comedy

Afternoon

12:00

LUNCH WITH CASEY - Children

12:45

KING AND ODIE – Cartoon

1:00

MOVIE – Drama

“Interns Can’t Take
Money” (1937)

2:45

MEL’S NOTEBOOK – Interview

3:00

GIRL TALK – Panel

3:30

AMOS ‘N’ ANDY – Comedy

4:00

POPEYE AND PETE – Children

4:30

CASEY AND ROUNDHOUSE

5:15

ROCKY AND FRIENDS

COLOR

5:30

BACHELOR FATHER – Comedy

Evening

6:00

RIFLEMAN – Western

6:30

BOLD JOURNEY – Travel

7:00

WILD CARGO – Travel

7:30

THEATER PREMIERE

SPECIAL

8:00

WRESTLING – Minneapolis

9:30

NEWS – Stuart A. Lindman

9:45

WEATHER – Warren Martin

9:50

SPORTS – Frank Buetel

10:00

MOVIE – Drama

COLOR

“Flame of the
Islands” (1955)

12:00

SLEEPY TIME – Drama

Time approximate.

The theater premiere at 7:30 is the Northwest premiere of the blockbuster war epic Battle of the Bulge live from the Cooper Theaterin St. Louis Park, hosted by Mel Jass and featuring movie co-star Robert Shaw.

4 comments:

(1) Wasn't Tuesday the only night during the fall of 1965 when all of ABC's programming was still entirely in black-and-white?

(2) And didn't "Art Linkletter's House Party" switch to color in September of 1965, becoming the first CBS daytime program to be broadcast in color (and the only weekday daytime program on CBS in color until sometime in 1966)?

Steady and consistent won the race on Tuesdays, despite CBS having RED SKELTON and PETTICOAT JUNCTION and then adding DAKTARI at midseason. RAWHIDE had been in the bottom 10 during the season's first half, and CBS REPORTS was second lowest show of the entire season at 9 PM opposite THE FUGITIVE.